"Enough!" Duan Yannian suddenly shouted angrily, "For the sake of this family, for the sake of this family, every time you make a mistake you say it's for the sake of this family. Are you blaming me, Duan Yannian, for being a peasant and incompetent enough to support you? Have I starved you or deprived you of your clothes, that you have to do these shameful things every time!"
Wang Lan hadn't expected Duan Yannian to be so angry this time, and her heart skipped a beat. She weakly said, "I didn't..."
Just as her two sons said, there are six workers in the family, and they receive monthly wages and subsidies. They also receive benefits during holidays. Every month, after paying her daily expenses, she can save at least two-thirds of the money.
Their family has saved up nearly ten thousand yuan over the years.
Every time she looks at the money in her savings account, she feels an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
Duan Yannian said in a deep voice: "You do! I won't even mention those friends from before, but now you're scheming against Lao Qin's family like this. Do you have any conscience at all? Have you forgotten how much Lao Qin has helped us over the years!"
Wang Lan retorted, "Haven't we treated Lao Qin well? When he got into trouble, if it weren't for you and your sons risking being implicated to secretly pull strings for him, then secretly protecting him all the way to ensure his safe departure from Beijing, and later finding people to secretly look after him in his place of exile, Qin Zhenyuan might be dead by now! And if it weren't for you running around putting in a good word for him recently, would he have been able to return to Beijing so smoothly? Don't make it sound like our family didn't do anything!"
Thinking about these things, Wang Lan felt that her family didn't owe Qin Zhenyuan anything.
Duan Yannian pointed at Wang Lan, so angry he almost fainted. After a while, he said, "You think this is such a big favor?"
Have you forgotten that without Lao Qin digging me out of a pile of corpses and saving me and taking bullets for me several times, I wouldn't even know where my bones would rot to now!
Let alone doing that little thing for him, even if he took my life, I would still owe him! When have you ever seen Old Qin try to take advantage of me?
"Back when we first arrived in Kyoto, our children were young and our family was poor. How many times did he help us, both openly and secretly? Did he expect us to repay him? Wang Lan, oh Wang Lan, today I finally see you for who you are! You're a scoundrel who only takes and never gives! A heartless ingrate!"
"I……"
Wang Lan was both ashamed and angry when Duan Yannian pointed his finger at her and scolded her in front of the children. She burst into tears, saying, "Duan, I ate chaff and wild vegetables with you back then, and bore your children. Now that the children are grown up and I'm old and faded, you despise me and insist on harping on such a trivial matter, don't you?"
Duan Yannian watched Wang Lan start crying and making a scene again, his eyes filled with icy coldness.
"If that's what you think, then whatever you say goes! Since that's how you feel, then let's get a divorce and go our separate ways."
"What? Divorce?" Wang Lan was so shocked that she plopped down on the sofa, completely dazed, staring at Duan Yannian in disbelief. "You want to divorce me? What did I do wrong that you want to divorce me?"
Duan Yannian looked at her coldly: "As expected, even now, you still don't think you're wrong. No wonder you always admit your mistakes and then repeat them. It turns out you don't think you're wrong at all!"
After Duan Yannian finished speaking, he returned to his study and slammed the door shut!
Wang Lan stared blankly at the tightly closed door, completely bewildered, her mind a jumbled mess.
The two daughters-in-law hid in the kitchen. At first, they were overjoyed to hear that the family was going to separate. Later, when they heard their father-in-law say that they would not separate the family and would have to hand over half of their monthly salary, their mother-in-law agreed, which made them very satisfied.
But now, hearing that their father-in-law and mother-in-law are arguing and talking about divorce, they don't know what to do. Seeing their mother-in-law's state, they don't know whether they should go up to comfort her.
To be honest, although they all behaved very obediently in front of their mothers-in-law, they often disapproved of some of her mothers-in-law's ways of doing things.
My father-in-law holds an important position now, but my mother-in-law's stingy nature is really unseemly and makes her too easy to offend people.
Because they have to hand over their entire monthly salary, they are always short of money. Especially when it comes to social obligations among colleagues, if they ask their mother-in-law for money, she will always nag for a while. She will only give them 50 cents at most, and sometimes she will ask people if it is true, as if she is afraid that they will make up an excuse to cheat her out of money, which makes them feel embarrassed.
If I hand over half of my monthly salary from now on, then at least if I need to buy something or have something that costs money, I won't have to put up with my mother-in-law's attitude anymore.
Ideally, the family should separate and move out to live separately.
Their workplaces provide housing that's close by and offers them more freedom, so they don't have to go home every day to deal with their mothers-in-law's attitudes or be bossed around by them.
Despite my father-in-law's high social standing, which allows for two caregivers, my mother-in-law is suspicious and refuses to use them, leaving the caregivers to do housework and cooking after a long day at work...
Wang Lan had no idea what her two daughters-in-law were thinking. At that moment, her mind was in complete chaos, and she sat blankly in the living room, like a piece of wood.
Finally, Duan Shuo couldn't stand it anymore and sighed, "Mom, Dad was just really angry and said those things to you in anger. We've been married for so long, why are you making such a fuss about divorce? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at? But if you keep going like this and push Dad too far, you know his temper. If he wants a divorce, we can't stop him..."
Wang Lan finally came to her senses and grabbed her eldest son's hand: "Duan Shuo, your father has no conscience. Who have I worked so hard for all these years? Wasn't it all for this family? How could he treat me like this? Waaah... How could he treat me like this..."
Seeing that Wang Lan was about to go on and on, Duan Shuo frowned and interrupted her rambling: "Mom, do you still think you're right? I don't care how you treat others, but how you treat Uncle Qin makes me feel heartbroken! If you still insist that you're not wrong, can't recognize your mistakes, and think you can continue to fool people like before, then pretend I never said anything, and my family will move out today."
Duan Xun also said, "Our whole family will move out too!"
Wang Lan immediately shouted, "No! I don't agree to splitting up the family! You're not allowed to split up the family!"
Duan Shuo said resolutely, "Even if we don't separate, we will move out. I don't want my children to follow suit and become selfish people in the future."
Wang Lan angrily punched Duan Shuo's arm: "You heartless bastard! Are you even my biological son?! Do you still acknowledge me as your own mother?! You unfilial son... You're going to drive me crazy..."
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